If you develop dashboards and work with data visualizations regularly, then you probably find yourself loathing the moment you are asked for a table of data. You probably think to yourself: “why do they want a table?!”.
The reality is that people love tables. They offer a consolidated form to input several key metrics, identify trends and outliers, and make decisions without having to click around or run multiple reports.
And just because they want a table doesn’t mean you have to give them *JUST* a table. First, be sure to follow some of the tips for our Ultimate guide to Tables in Tableau. At minimum, it will help with formatting your tables.
Before we jump into the 26 examples, let’s start with a base table. You’ll notice we have a few metrics: Revenue, Margin as total, margin at percent, and total customers. This is broken down into 17 sub-categories.
Let’s start with our base table!
Getting started with Tables?
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